GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY2007 Annual Conference and Field Trip GANJ XXIV Contributions to the Paleontology of New Jersey (II)
Friday, October 12 and Saturday October 13, 2007 |
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Friday, October 12th
12:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration
10:00 am to 1:30 pm 'Teaching Forensic Geology' workshop
(Dansbury Commons, Lower Lounge)
Presentations:
1:40 - 1:50
pm
Welcoming Remarks - Dr. Emma C. Rainforth, GANJ President
1:50 - 4:10
pm
Technical Session
4:15 - 5:15
pm
Teachers Workshop, Sterling Hill Mining Museum
5:15 - 6:15
pm
Keynote Presentation, 'The Triassic-Jurassic Mass Extinction' - Dr. Paul
Olsen
6:30 - 8:00
pm
Banquet and Business Meeting (Dansbury
Commons, Lower Lounge)
1:50-4:10 Technical Session
1:50-2:10 Trace Fossils from Silurian and Devonian
Strata at the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, New Jersey
Robert Metz, Kean University
2:10-2:30 The Devonian Bivalve, Archanodon catskillensis:
A Status Report on the First Freshwater Mussel from New Jersey
John A, Chamberlain, Jr., Brooklyn College,
City University of New York
2:30-2:50 Estimating Speeds of Dinosaurs from Trackways:
a Re-Evaluation of Assumptions Melissa
Manzella, Ramapo College of New Jersey
2:50-3:10 Ichnotaxonomic Updates from the Newark Supergroup
Emma Rainforth, Ramapo College of
New Jersey
3:10-3:30 The Paradox of Large Carcharhinoid-Type Shark
Vertebrae in the Upper Cretaceous of New Jersey -
Martin Becker, William Paterson University
of New Jersey
3:30-3:50 The Geological Setting, Taphonomy, and Paleoecology
of a Deltaic Cretaceous (Turonian) Amber-Bearing Deposit in Central New Jersey
- Paul C. Nascimbene, American Museum of
Natural History
3:50-4:10 Overview of Rubin Hill Road locality, Montague township,
NJ Arlene Castleman, NJ Paleontological
Society
Teachers' Workshops:
10:00-1:30 Teaching Forensic Geology
Dr. Nelson Eby, University
of Massachusetts-Lowel
4:15-5:15
The Proposed Fossil Discovery Center
and The Sterling Hill Mining Museum Educational Programs:
Past, Current and Future Dr.
James O. Brown, Sterling Hill Mining Museum
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Saturday, October 13th
8:00 - 5:00 Field Trip: Contributions to the Paleontology of New Jersey
II
GANJ
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